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  • Several Regions have held meetups already, but others are being planned or are evaluating the interest. The Ontario GTA West area meetup is planned for Saturday April 26th at Greasemonkeys shop in Aylmer Ontario. If you are interested and haven’t signed up yet, click here! Arbutus has also explored interest in a Fraser Valley meetup but it seems members either missed his thread or had other plans. Let him know if you are interested in a meetup later in the year by posting here! Slowpoke is trying to pull together an Ottawa area meetup later this summer. No date has been selected yet, so let him know if you are interested here! We are not aware of any other meetups being planned this year. If you are interested in doing something in your area, let everyone know and make it happen! Meetups are a great way to make new machining friends and get hands on help in your area. Don’t be shy, sign up and come, or plan your own meetup!

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  1. torinwalker

    Sine Plate Roll Pin Enagement

    Watched a video of a guy re-surfacing some v-blocks on a 6x6 magnetic chuck/sine plate and thought, damn - I want one of those. Shopping on ebay and kijiji, they're pretty expensive... then I re-discovered a 4x4 suburban mag chuck gathering dust on the shelf. Figured making a sine-plate for this...
  2. torinwalker

    Set screws: cup to dog point

    Two things, First - fasteners are hardened and HSS won't always work (easily), especially on the good fasteners like Holo-Krome. Carbide is your friend here. You want hardened dog-points so they don't mush as you tighten them. Mind you, for the size of your lathe, this probably isn't a problem...
  3. torinwalker

    1st Milling Machine......which

    Yes, all of that. Was never happy about the head being knocked around by "heavy" cuts, or having to loosen-tighten the head to move it up/down/around. I was using a 5/8 endmill to mill the crust off of a torch-cut plate as I rotated it on a rotary table. Every flute engagement of the endmill...
  4. torinwalker

    Our first big step towards even more exciting next steps. (Group Courses, Group Metal Buys, etc.)

    Did the forum listing format change recently? Don't like it. Prefer the compact format. My two cents.
  5. torinwalker

    1st Milling Machine......which

    Do NOT get a round-column mill. I had an RF-30 from Busy-Bee - you can never tighten the head enough, and moving it up and down is such a pain. Get yourself the CX600.
  6. torinwalker

    Greetings from Ontario

    It's a precision spinning top called "Spinny-Doo". Details at www.spinny-doo.com. I make them on a dual-spindle 24-station Hardinge T42. It's a small, humble business, but it's completely mine from end to end. Everything from design and manufacturing, to trademarks, to the website, shipping, and...
  7. torinwalker

    Greetings from Ontario

    I considered the model engineering club, but it reminds me too much of toy making. Agreed, they produce some fantastic and complicated stuff, but aside from learning how they did it, I don't have the interest in replicating scale models of vintage trains, or building an engine that turns for the...
  8. torinwalker

    Do-All 6x12 Surface Grinder for $400 (Kitchener)

    Every good piece of equipment I use is on three-phase. For my mill, and my lathe, I use a 600 to 240V 4.5kva transformer wired in reverse and drive the main spindle with a VFD.
  9. torinwalker

    Greetings from Ontario

    Craig, so what have you made with it now that it's up and running?
  10. torinwalker

    Do-All 6x12 Surface Grinder for $400 (Kitchener)

    Something wrong with your browser. Link works just fine on Chrome, IE, and Mobile (Safari.) I'll bet you have a plugin that screws with your search results. Compare link in post...
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